If you haven't done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear from your militarized police force!
QFT... especially since all of the early posters were modded down to zero for questioning the wisdom of sending kill squads into a house on the basis of a phone call.
Pulling common sense into a discussion about law enforcement is practically unamerican. We want more criminals, but harder penalties. Prevention doesn't fill jails, buddy.
I feel bad for everyone who saw the blair witch after all the hype had peaked. I watched a prerelease tape with a friend, not knowing anything about the movie, and had a great time. Creepy. Then I saw it in a theater when it came out and laughed along with everyone else in the house.
Buy ten OLPCs if it assuages your guilt, says Dvorak, but 'I'll donate my money to hunger relief.'"
Except, you know, he won't...
Don't get drawn into the usual false dichotomy that always springs up around any given charity. There is a need for more than one type of item at any given time. There is a need for more than one type of service at any given time. These people need help of all kinds, and we are in a position to give it to them.
Buy your OLPC with pride, knowing that it's more than Dvorak or his ilk will ever do.
Considering the low price of a Slashdot subscription, and the number of posts you've made over the years, your sig makes you look like an ass. Please pay for the software you use.
Actually I'm here because some genius thought that growing only one type of potato was a good idea. It's amazing how much misery England caused in such a short amount of time.
On the flip side, we know that any sentient life we discover could be uncompromisingly hostile, so it would be in our best interest to find other life before it finds us.
There are a few other comments like this already... I just wanted to point out that the whole 'hostile alien contact' scenario is a metaphor for man coming to grips with the darker side of his nature.
The trend is always towards larger government. State, national, continental, global... It continues to happen because the artificial borders we place between us and them are growing increasingly irrelevant. Too many people, too close together, too interconnected.
We'll have a single global government sooner or later. Either that or chaos.
Eating paint chips is one way young children are exposed to lead. It is not the most common way that consumers, in general, are exposed to lead. Ingesting and inhaling lead dust that is created as lead-based paint "chalks," chips, or peels from deteriorated surfaces can expose consumers to lead. Walking on small paint chips found on the floor, or opening and closing a painted frame window, can also create lead dust. Other sources of lead include deposits that may be present in homes after years of use of leaded gasoline and from industrial sources like smelting. Consumers can also generate lead dust by sanding lead-based paint or by scraping or heating lead-based paint.
Lead dust can settle on floors, walls, and furniture. Under these conditions, children can ingest lead dust from hand-to-mouth con- tact or in food. Settled lead dust can re-enter the air through cleaning, such as sweeping or vacuuming, or by movement of people throughout the house.
Interestingly enough you're sort of (plumb?) wrong on both counts...
The problem with lead paint was twofold. Yes, children did in fact eat paint chips. However, the most common source of lead poisoning was breathing dust around the house associated with the paint.
I was always really, really happy with Speakeasy. They cover everything you're looking for, but are perhaps a little more expensive and a little slower than your large cable provider. Tech support that actually knows what they're doing, too.
I think they were bought out recently, though. Not sure, since it would have happened after I left the area of coverage they had. No idea if they've changed or not.
Damn, you people are stupid! What a bunch of moronic statements, one after the other. You're the reason this country's going to hell in a handbasket, and I'd bet you'll be cheering the whole way down.
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If you haven't done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear from your militarized police force!
QFT... especially since all of the early posters were modded down to zero for questioning the wisdom of sending kill squads into a house on the basis of a phone call.
Pulling common sense into a discussion about law enforcement is practically unamerican. We want more criminals, but harder penalties. Prevention doesn't fill jails, buddy.
I feel bad for everyone who saw the blair witch after all the hype had peaked. I watched a prerelease tape with a friend, not knowing anything about the movie, and had a great time. Creepy. Then I saw it in a theater when it came out and laughed along with everyone else in the house.
Why are you in such a hurry to leave ze DDR?
By that logic geothermal power plants wouldn't exist.
Who knows more about the situation than people whose job it is to work with this stuff every single day?
The 1950's called, they want their naivete back.
Buy ten OLPCs if it assuages your guilt, says Dvorak, but 'I'll donate my money to hunger relief.'"
Except, you know, he won't...
Don't get drawn into the usual false dichotomy that always springs up around any given charity. There is a need for more than one type of item at any given time. There is a need for more than one type of service at any given time. These people need help of all kinds, and we are in a position to give it to them.
Buy your OLPC with pride, knowing that it's more than Dvorak or his ilk will ever do.
((bonus captcha irony: "despise"))
Please, Eve is just as flawed as every other economic system.
Fixed that for you.
It's not pointless at all. It's supposed to make the government look like it's taking some sort of action.
Considering the low price of a Slashdot subscription, and the number of posts you've made over the years, your sig makes you look like an ass. Please pay for the software you use.
Hanford.
Mr. Have, meet the Have-Not family. They outnumber you ten to one. Good luck.
4) What Nuclear waste is flowing into the columbia?
That could be from Hanford. Plenty of people have died from exposure to that superfund site. Funny how nobody talks about it much.
Actually I'm here because some genius thought that growing only one type of potato was a good idea. It's amazing how much misery England caused in such a short amount of time.
On the flip side, we know that any sentient life we discover could be uncompromisingly hostile, so it would be in our best interest to find other life before it finds us.
There are a few other comments like this already... I just wanted to point out that the whole 'hostile alien contact' scenario is a metaphor for man coming to grips with the darker side of his nature.
Ob Pogo quote here...
The trend is always towards larger government. State, national, continental, global... It continues to happen because the artificial borders we place between us and them are growing increasingly irrelevant. Too many people, too close together, too interconnected.
We'll have a single global government sooner or later. Either that or chaos.
Speakeasy turned to ass pretty soon after Best Buy bought them
Ok. Thank you for letting me know. I will stop recommending them immediately and would hope that people disregard my previous post.
Like that 70's TV indian, I am now shedding a single tear for the memory of what once was. RIP Speakeasy.
Interestingly enough you're sort of (plumb?) wrong on both counts...
The problem with lead paint was twofold. Yes, children did in fact eat paint chips. However, the most common source of lead poisoning was breathing dust around the house associated with the paint.
Here's a link talking about it.
I was always really, really happy with Speakeasy. They cover everything you're looking for, but are perhaps a little more expensive and a little slower than your large cable provider. Tech support that actually knows what they're doing, too.
I think they were bought out recently, though. Not sure, since it would have happened after I left the area of coverage they had. No idea if they've changed or not.
Moral relativity is for evil people.
a six-month stint designing a royalty-calculation engine for Universal Music.
I don't know why, since that actually sounds like a pretty fun gig, but that sentence totally cracked me up.
You respect the gun, not the man. Unless you're into being dominated or a Republican (or, usually, both).
I have karma to burn, so here goes...
Damn, you people are stupid! What a bunch of moronic statements, one after the other. You're the reason this country's going to hell in a handbasket, and I'd bet you'll be cheering the whole way down.
Your tears are like milk.